Firelli Alonso-caplen BS, PhD

Dr. Firelli Alonso-Caplen is a Senior Director at Pfizer, Inc. She heads the Biotherapeutics and Vaccines Outsourcing group in Worldwide Research and Development. Fi has more than 30 years of combined experience in research, development, and cGMP production of biological products and vaccines, and more than 10 years experience in outsourcing, project / contract management, and technology transfer to qualified third parties. Her areas of expertise include viral vectors and vaccine development, biotherapeutics and vaccine process development and cGMP production, project management, technology transfer, outsourcing, and budgets and operations. She obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, followed by postdoctoral research at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, and Rutgers University Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. Prior to working for Wyeth / Pfizer in 1996, Fi was at The Salk Institute (Government Services Division), a vaccine contract manufacturer for the U.S. Army.